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garfield1:
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How many chances did city create against atletico? They scored 6 goals in r16 and 1 goal in quarters.Madrid has scored 8 goals against PSG and Chelsea.city could only. Score two deflected goals against chelsea...vinicius will have a field day P

hahaha. City should have won ATM 4-1. This ATM that played 5-5-0. RM conceded 2 goals apart from 2 canceled goals against PSG and then suffered defensively over 180 mins to qualify. City thoroughly outplayed PSG not only in the CL home and away last season, they also did same this season again and relegated Neymar, Messi and Mbappe to counter attacks and hopeful defending. City battered PSG.

City already outplayed and beat CFC home and away this season as well so what is the big deal? You keep forgetting that CFC scored 4 goals in the 2nd leg against RM had Alonso's goal not been canceled. RM are no match for City tactically.

garfield1:
Madrid are semi final masters

Chelsea freaking outplayed and scored 3 goals to this same Madrid. You are waffling.

garfield1:
Oga,most of Madrid threat is through counter.their attack is far sharper than that of city.they create more chances compared to city.they will pick city off

You are now proving you are talking rubbish. City creates more chances than all other teams not named Bayern. Incase you don't know, Sporting that is higher than Benfica in the league lost to City 5-0 in their own ground. You seem to forget that Chelsea outplayed and battered RM and Chelsea is significantly worse than City. Lol.

RM is not better at City at anything. Not scoring. Not defending and certainly not keeping the ball. RM just have a wonderful striker in Benzema to finish off their half chances.

garfield1:
Are you ok? Majority of the goals Madrid scored PSG and Chelsea are from counters.Madrid always score at the right time

You don't know what counter attack is. RM scored 3 goals against CFC by cross and nod having used 1-2 combination of passes to get to the by line. Then 1 other goal came from Benz forcing Mendy to make a mistake. Rodrygo scored from a brilliant cross by Modric.

In the PSG game Benz scored 2 of his goals by pressing Donaruma into a mistake. That is called counter pressing. Counter attack comes when you revert an attack from an opposing team into a chance or a goal. Go and learn football.

garfield1:
Oga,Madrid will remove you.look at how atletico outplayed you

You talk like you don't watch football. There were 4 halves in this tie. City should have won 2-0 first leg. Then City should have also scored a goal in the first half of the second leg. ATM played better in the 2nd half of the 2nd leg period. This is considering how tired City already was by the 2nd half.

garfield1:
No one in city can mark benz

Benz can easily be marked because City play a back 4 whereas CFC plays a back 3. Benz is good no doubt but City will have to miss chances to lose to RM. RM cannot outplay City. City are better than Barcelona who outplayed RM at Santiago.

garfield1:
sterling is poor at decision making

Vinicius is worse than him and Sterling is better at positioning than him. We beat this RM team in 2019-20 and Zidane as their coach. RM are not even a great counter attacking team which means they can't control the ball and can't counter City if we lose possession.

garfield1:
De bruyne and Walker are injured.Chelsea is more difficult to beat

If you think so then you have not been watching football. Even though KDB is our best player, we actually play our best football without him. The only miss is Walker because Cancelo is banned from game 1. RM will be no match for City. We are better than Chelsea having outplayed them 2 times this season.

Wordson:
Which Madrid will beat City? Are dey playing against chelsea?
Anyway, we shall see...

Don't mind them. Even when they saw Chelsea outplay RM at Santiago. I just hope KDB was just tired and that Walker can be back for the UCL. We don't need them for the league. B. Silva will go back to his best.

StAmbrose1:
How true is this? If accurate, then man city defence is solid against Madrid.
What about walker and de Bruyne? Their fitness looks doubtful.
Hopefully they would feature in both ties in the semi's. Walker is needed to curtail the excesses of that Brazilian akpororo. Stones or your nigga is a match for benzema.

RM will have to worry about Sterling as well. He is even quicker than Vinicius. I can be fine with Cancelo playing RB tbh but I want him on the left and Walker on the right. Which is why I pray he is back.

Savic should have been red carded as well.

Amerengues2:
I don't know how you people watch ball. Didn't Chelsea outplayed Madrid? Who qualified? They only outplayed city in just 1 out of 4 halves and you are saying CITY played rubbish. Did Liverpool win an average Benfica today? But did they qualify?

City has learnt what it requires to win. When it is necessary to swallow Thier pride, they should. All that matters is winning and qualifying

City were tired. That is all. They should have even scored in the first half and ended this game but they missed it. ATM were more energetic second half but the Ref was allowing them to be physical. If he had whistled more, they would not have bullied City so much in the 2nd half.

popizaino:
So others man city players didn't try to advance with the ball when they were in possession or what? .........you are a scummy for a reason .

They don't know what parked the bus means. Mourinho started the statement "park the bus and throw the key away". Because when you are parking the bus, you don't try to attack at all, you don't try to advance the ball, you use every opportunity to waste time and you play a lot of defensive players. City did nothing of the sort.

ATM were simply more energetic in the 2nd half. City were tired from the Liverpool game and how physical ATM had been all game.

Savic could have killed Grealish with the hair pulling.

KingAlabi:
Parking the bus is not one dimensional.
City parked the bus.

If it helps you sleep at night, sure.

popizaino:
As in I don't get people again, once you are not getting much of the ball then it's either you are parking the bus or you are playing defensive football...........what kind mumu mumu take for crying out loud?

They are so used to seeing City fluid so when they don't see it they assume they were doing the opposite. Nobody accepts that maybe ATM were just pressing better and that City were tired or both.

KingAlabi:
Hope you know only foden and sterling were attacking for city after the red card city came back out.

Riyad was asked to track wide because Cancelo was tired and is not as quick as Walker not to mention that Verrasco is tricky but City simply could not execute what they planned to do which was pass out from the back and Catch ATM on the wings. It was City that got more fouls in the middle of the pitch during transitions. A team parking the bus won't do it. They'll be kicking the ball to row Z.

KingAlabi:
You definitely didn't watch the game.
ATM weren't defensive in the second half.

They were. What did they do to attack except kick long balls, push tired City players and dive?

KingAlabi:
Pep parked the bus in the closing stages

You people don't know what parked bus is. City should not have defended when they were being bullied or what?

donstan18:
Pep switched to “park the bus” system

Na lie. The fact that ATM were pressing does not mean City were trying to defend. The players were tired by the 2nd half and ATM changed the way they were pressing City.

Luck? Lol. Credit to ATM for bullying City in the 2nd half but this game should have been ended by Gundogan and Foden in the first half.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging - A wise man.

BlueMann:
Pardon me if I'm not getting it, but let me try to clarify...you're trying to say:
a. Who gets it - Marcelo
b. Why he got it - Cos he likes to operate higher up the pitch than Mendy

That's what you're implying right?


Lol, there's no assurance that Mendy wouldn't have been in that position; its not like he lives in his own half and they were chasing the game afterall.

But all of these would be academic if only Kante put enough height on the ball, something which he had more than enough time to do. That is first an unforced error from Kante before anything else.

Between Mendy and Marcelo who was playing in a more advanced position from the jump? Marcelo was told to be more advanced when he came on (LWB). Alaba was told to occupy the LCB position whereas Mendy was playing LB till he was subbed off. Marcelo's position meant that he could participate in pressing up quicker than Mendy could all game. Kante tried to be cute with his pass but he may have gotten through had Marcelo not been there to intercept. I wonder why you guys can't see it. Why do you think Ancelotti made that substitution?

Edit: by the way Marcelo was asked to pass between the lines unlike Mendy who was trying to overlap when he had the chance. That inside pass also was needed for Modric.

Unlimited22:
Lmao
Are you okay?

Saying that the tactic and personnel change played a part is one thing but this is madness abeg lmao

Copium.

Itsrm:
And I am saying there would have been no ball to intercept had Kante chosen the easier and obvious option.

It was more of our own errors than whatever Ancelotti did

That error was not unforced. That is my point. You can analyze Kante's mistake but I can also analyze what amplified the mistake.

Roland17:
I don't understand how difficult it is for anyone to see how Ancelotti's changes in personnel and tactics changed Madrid's fortunes.

Initial shock from losing. They will recalibrate...soon. They are in stage 1 of dealing with grief.

Unlimited22:
What?

Who intercepted Kante's pass? There is a reason Kante made that mistake. He was used to F. Mendy all game but Marcelo was delegated to man the left side differently.

BlueMann:
How? The substitutions caused it that there wasn't enough height in his intended pass? Or how do you mean?

Read the below. It tells you who intercepted the ball from Kante and why he could is what I was saying to itsrm.

Itsrm:
What I'm saying is, if Kante had not lost the ball, all things being equal the game stays 3-0 and we qualify. His substitutions or not

That is like saying if someone was marking Rudiger he won't have scored or if Carvahal did not fall Werner would not have scored. The substitutions forced Kante to make a mistake.

Itsrm:
It was only normal they come out to play once we scored the third goal with or without his subs.

His substitution did not make Kante make a difficult needless pass leading to a turnover

Actually they did. Marcelo was higher and wider than Mendy was playing all game and he gave the inside pass that led to Modric's cross. Mendy was not making such passes all game.

Muslims don't fast for 24 hours.

Jodera:
Var checked for handball not for corner kick. They Just told Taylor their own jurisdiction which was "no handball". Yeah, there's high probability you guys might have scored from the corner but that's not Var area to talk on, that's the work of the ref. So if ref makes a mistake there, it has nothing to do with Var.

Same way if a player dives outside the box and his teammate scores through the resulting direct free kick, the goal will stand but if same player dives inside the box, Var will look into it since that's a penalty decision (Var area)

lol